wonkabar wrote:This a thread where you spout-off random thoughts about anything about comic books or anything related to comic books without having to start a new topic or search for an existing discussion. Think of it as the "general interest" of comic books.

This a thread where you spout-off random thoughts about anything about comic books or anything related to comic books without having to start a new topic or search for an existing discussion. Think of it as the "general interest" of comic books.

Yeah, comics are too expensive. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I almost prefer waiting for the graphic novel....but then again, I sometimes wait an hour after a show just so I can TIVO-thru the commercials. Yeah, I'm that guy.

thedoglippedone wrote:My local comic shop is not local, so I don't get to go much

REJOICE! A MIRACLE HAS OCCURRED!

A comic shop has opened in my town! I'm going weekly, YAY!

Huzzah! Grab a drink and prepare for new comic Wednesday!

I live in a city of 110,000 and we have two comics shops (Mile High had a location here but closed at least ten years ago). One shop is strictly comics and related merchandise. The other is as much about games and anime as comics. The traditional shop plods along, doing enough business for its owners to make a quiet living. The bigger shop is up for sale to anyone who will put up $20,000 -- and assume more than $75,000 in debt.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

I miss Elfquest. I know, I know! Where the hell did that come from? Right? Well, I just re-read the original b&w magazine size run. Thinking about busting into the first collected color trades next. I miss GOOD Elfquest being released on a regular basis, dang it. It's one of the comic books that was with me from my youth into my adulthood and every once in a while it bums me out that people don't much care about it anymore. It was important, once upon a time....

Not been to a real comic 'con' in a long time. I mostly pursue decent silver age stuff myself. Any good Spiderman from the 70s usually fits the bill. The modern stuff I just don't get. But as my collection stands at 6 big boxes, I think I'd be safe in saying maybe my collecting days are done, altho who knows?

They read them and live them, obsess over them, and all they can do is compalin and hate them.

Now It really drives me mad with the comic shop owners. I don't want to buy a book and have some 40 year old virgin tell me how horrible it is and rant on about comics of the past and how everything I buy sucks. They are supposed to be a buisness. What other buisness owner will sit there and tell you that the product you are buying is sub-standard? Don't they want our money?

No comics aren't the same as they were in the 60's. They have evolved. I love golden and silver age stuff, it's just not the same thing as today. The writing has evolved to bwe much more advanced, and the stuff that worked for a 12 year old kid in 64 just isn't waht an adult in the 21st century always wants to read. Why do they claim to be fans and hate it?

That just drives me up a wall.

Comic fans are the most fickle bitchy and sensitive people on earth. They seem to get a know it all attitude and can't see outside of comic book world. God, comic guys drive me nuts. They have been chasing me out of comic stores lately. It's not like they can draw or write better than the stuff they complain about. My opinion is that if you can't do better then keep your mouth shut.

I know Burl is reading, but has anyone else picked up X-23 : Target 1&2 yet? Great book.

The perfect mix of teenage angst and extreme violence with some stunning artwork from Mike Choi. As beautiful as it looks though, this comic's brilliance comes from Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, they are really shaping Laura into a perplexing and lovable character. If this book gets better as it goes it will be up there with Runaways as some of the best teen superhero writing around.

Nexus is coming back! There's been a full-page ad in the last two issues of Previews, but no solicitation copy. My comics retailer told me he's spoken with Mike Baron (who lives either in town or nearby) and Baron says it ships in June!

I'd call Baron and give him a big old verbal kiss, but he might remember me describing much of his secondary work as "meretricious" in a review many years ago. Most likely not -- he probably wouldn't remember me in spite of my rather distinctive name -- but there are some parts of my pre-treatment years I prefer to leave in the past.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

The perfect mix of teenage angst and extreme violence with some stunning artwork from Mike Choi. As beautiful as it looks though, this comic's brilliance comes from Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, they are really shaping Laura into a perplexing and lovable character. If this book gets better as it goes it will be up there with Runaways as some of the best teen superhero writing around.

MW, if you have not read this yet, get it now - you'll love it.

i have actually been reading this book.

it actually reminds me a lot of an anime called "Elfen Lied". its about this girl who science created to be a killer, but she is just a young girl at heart. and one day, she escapes. although similar, they are different enough that they are both well worth the time invested. i loved the anime, and am loving X-23. if you have the means, you may want to check it out.

thedoglippedone wrote:MW, if you have not read this yet, get it now - you'll love it.

Yeah? I've never been that into X-23. And I need to get back into New X-Men. I picked up the first arc back when it started and thought it was HORRIBLE--like, unreadably bad. I hear Kyle & Yost are doing good things with it though.

burlivesleftnut wrote:Phew... thank god I am not the only one enjoying this. I appreciate how dark the series is. I wish I had the balls to stand up in a biology class and list off the 427 ways you could kill a human.

haha, that and the french lesson were excellent.

Brocktune wrote:why do i have the feeling that she will end up butchering her friend?

Shane ain't kidding, and even though I could've sworn it was someone else who gave a shout-out to this gobsmacking bit of comic ingenuity ( ), I, at the behest of my favorite comic shop clerk, who, when he noticed that both the gf and I were giggling ourselves silly over the pressed on picture and caption on his red t-shirt, which consisted of a headless figure cradling it's noggin' in a jar whilst brandishing a gun and exclaiming "Violence is the new black!"...where was I?

Oh yeah, so while he was wringing us up, he said, simply, "Godland". Vaguely (so fucking vague I couldn't recall just who mentioned the tome) I replied with the standard "oh, I heard that was good" (which, of course, ='s "ring me up monkey!") but then he went on about how "Godland" is where both the design and the quote came from. Hmmm...intriguing. Could this surly comic book nerd, who I know also digs on The Venture Brothers and baseball (aka, my kind of surly comic book nerd), be onto to something here? Was there something a notorious taste-onista like myself could possibly have missed I asked myself with existential dread? I had to find out!

Lo' and behold, Godland is the fucking real deal. A pull quote from the back from "Ain't it Cool News" (aka some @sshole...wish they would say which one, ya' know? Like if it said superhero or squasha I would just ignore it (j/k...kinda)) does a fairly adequate job of summarizing part of this comics dervish delight...

some @sshole wrote:taking Kirby as a genre...and presenting an original concept within that genre...

...but I assume that's mostly from the art that evokes King Kirby at his most cosmic. Not being all that familiar myself with Kirby's writing (for shame!), I don't know to what extent Godland either homages and/or parodies da' King, but I do know what I likes, and Joe Casey and Tom Scioli have tapped the vein into my juvenile, dope addled mind that adores the silly, the fun, the meta, the bizarre and just plain loopy.

Characters mentally comment upon their own cheesy dialogue ("why am i verbally taunting this thing?! Am I such a poseur I can't help myself?"), the narration by the author is often comically cross cut with anachronistic glee ({heroine scales remote castle} narration - Her thoughts hum like a finely-tuned engine of action..."ain't no mountain high enough") of the big bads, the aforementioned head in a jar with a penchant for mind altering substances from the far edges of the cosmos, Basil Cronus, is an absolute hoot, there's maximum cheese guised as plot moving family melodrama, a pain inflicting humanist villainess with a predilection for perverse torture, a cosmic talking dog...and I'm just scratching at the surface of this now 15 issue bit of comic gold.

BUY THIS BOOK!

ooh, wait, I can even tie some of this together...remember how I mentioned The Venture Brothers? If you read Basil in The Monarch's voice, if you read Adam Archer with a Bud Manstrong inflection, your god, it's even funnier! The sensibilities of both ventures (heh) are remarkably similiar, in that the can both be seen as loving gestures to their respected influences.

see what I did there? Tying things together like that? keepcool, gonzo tho' he may be, still packs a critical wallop!

Personally, I'm an atheist in the voting booth and a theist in the movie theatre. I separate the morality of religion with the spirituality and solace of it. There is something boring about atheism.